The evolution of self-help[electroni...
Archibald, Matthew.

 

  • The evolution of self-help[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 361.4
    書名/作者: The evolution of self-help/ Matthew E. Archibald.
    作者: Archibald, Matthew.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
    面頁冊數: xiii, 187 p. : : ill.
    標題: Self Care - history - United States.
    標題: Self-Help Groups - history - United States.
    標題: History, 20th Century - United States.
    標題: Self-help techniques - History. - United States
    ISBN: 9780230609624
    ISBN: 0230609627
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index.
    內容註: The demography of self-help -- Defining self-help : how does a movement become an institution? -- From small beginnings : growth and diversification -- Legitimation : the paradox of public recognition of self-help -- The evolution of public recognition and its consequences -- Resources : how competition selects only the fittest organizations -- Conclusion and future directions.
    摘要、提要註: This book examines the institutionalization of self-help in the United States using organizational and social movement theories. Looking ata fifty-year period, Archibald charts the formation and dissolution ofover 500 medical, academic, and popular organizations. He explores theways in which the marginal practices of sufferers of chronic conditions like Parkinson's or alcoholism became the common solution for all manner of medical, behavioral, and psychological problems.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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